Police in North Carolina shot and killed a man running toward them Saturday morning -- but he may have just been looking for help after a car wreck.

Officers responded to a "breaking and entering" 911 call at a home in Charlotte. The homeowner told dispatchers that a man had been knocking on her door repeatedly. Police say that when they got to the scene, a man matching the caller's description ran toward them. One of the officers fired his stun gun, but it was "unsuccessful." Another officer then opened fire, police said. Jonathan Ferrell died at the scene. He was shot several times.

He was unarmed. Police now believe Ferrell was seeking assistance after crashing his car. "It was a pretty serious accident," Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Rodney Monroe told CNN affiliate WSOC. The crash was so severe that authorities now believe Ferrell had to climb out of the back window, another affiliate WBTV reported.

He ran to the closest house for help. The woman inside thought it was her husband. "To her surprise, it was an individual that she did not know or recognize," Monroe told WBTV. "She immediately closed the door, hit her panic alarm, called 911." The man stood outside and "continued to attempt to gain the attention of the homeowner," a police statement said.

Police have charged Officer Randall Kerrick with voluntary manslaughter -- a felony. He turned himself in Saturday afternoon and was being held early Sunday on a $50,000 bond. There were three officers at the scene, but Kerrick was the only one to use a gun. He fired several times, police said.

_________________"When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good. Because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some of them."--Darryl Zero, Zero Effect

The problem is that police forces all over including the USA to a great extent are no longer officers upholding the peace and using good police judgement. The police forces have become paramilitary forces today. Look at the uniforms and the kit they carry. Almost any town of size has a SWAT or ERT team and they look exactly like the typical Army do including in the USA. There is a brainwashing in law enforcement to SUSPECT ALL CITIZENS, TRUST NO CITIZENS and as such these officers are now blind to professional decorum and conduct, to which they now hold the public in low respect and regard. Often the police are protected from their seemingly growing number of tragic mistakes, misjudgements on the job and events by the greater bureaucratic and political regimes.

But when society has been and is being brainwashed to live in fear, to itself trust nobody esp a visible minority and as popular throughout the USA the saying "If you see something say something." Well the skids on the pathway to social hell are well greased and even more grease being smeared on them.

BTW again this sort of stuff is not only a USA issue as many other said to be intelligent, progressive nations are doing similar stuff too. But the USA is the biggest beacon on the land to all this tragic, crap.